A Senior Collaboration

 

On October 28th and 29th Senior Hairdressing and Computer Aided Drafting and Design students collaborated on a Dream Salon Project. The Hairdressing students drew preliminary sketches on graph paper of their salon floor plans, including but not limited to reception areas, facial rooms, work stations, tanning areas, handicapped baths and upper/ lower levels. They then met with the drafting students on a one to one basis, were interviewed, and worked with them to develop the designs further in AutoCAD.  The designs were drawn and printed in ¼ scale so the Hairdressing students could use them as a template to build scale models.

 

“The idea is that we would get the two shops together so the kids could design their own salons and then create in on CAD.  The students worked in shop, at home, and we even did research in the library to come up with designs and ideas, said HB Department Head Lynn Seiser.  “They drew chairs, a layout of each salon area, some had a dispensary, waterfalls, staircases, and coloring and nail areas.  It took only a few days from the time they did the research.  The kids were wonderful and worked side by side with the drafting students.  They concentrated on completion and were on task the whole way.”

 

Next the HB students will build their models from the CAD drawings.  “The projects are due in March,” added Ms. Seiser.  We will enter them into our school’s Art Show.”

 

Mr. Bruce Ejzak, our Computer Aided Drafting and Design teacher explained his students’ role this way:  “We’ve been doing a unit on architecture.  With the plan in place with the HB kids, I told my guys to treat them as clients with preliminary ideas and drawings.  We matched the kids up one to one.  They worked very well that way.  It gave them time to interact and exchange ideas.   It was awesome to see 30 kids in our room and working so hard."  The Drafting kids drew the designs and put them on AutoCad for the HB kids to use for their models. 

 

  Ashley Goad working with Yany Rosado on her salon layout      Kyle Eustace and Valerie Pac discuss the floorplan

 

 

  

              Salon layout on AutoCad Program                              HCB and Drafting students work on their plans